#A74: Pyramid and Pyramid Climbers
The former bears some nostalgia because I recall seeing a barebones version in some puzzle books in my youth. The traditional version doesn't have the row or bank constraints and only states that each number is the sum of the two below. Naturally, the version I was familiar with was more of an exercise in prealgebra than a nuanced logic puzzle. The amendments present in the advent ruleset flesh it out into something more challenging.
Pyramid Climbers is in the same boat as Exercise: a genre that was debuted at a tournament and somehow didn't catch on despite featuring what is to my knowledge a completely new idea to paper puzzles. Although the name and ruleset imply that the puzzle is solved going upwards, I suspect the logic more often involves working downwards.
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